A schoolteacher has admitted to the possession of sexual images of children and extreme animal porn.

Caroline Parry, 45, appeared at Teesside Magistrates’ Court charged with the possession of 20 indecent photographs of children and extreme pornography involving an animal, and two counts of making indecent photographs of children, the Teesside Gazette reports.

Parry, the head of English at an unnamed secondary school, pleaded guilty to two counts of making indecent photographs of children, possessing an indecent photograph of a child and possessing an extreme pornographic image involving an animal.

Colin Sleeman, defending, said Parry, of Ryhill Walk, Ormesby, was a woman of ‘previous good character’ who pleaded guilty at the ‘earliest opportunity’ and that the case should be transferred to the crown court for sentencing.

The court heard how Parry was caught after an investigation by the National Crime Agency into another person.

‘During that time a number of computers were seized…details (found on those computers) then led to this defendant,’ said Paul Power, prosecuting.

A USB stick belonging to Parry was then seized and the pictures were found.